Yanks Abroad

Cameron Carter Vickers has been loaned to Sheffield United

http://www.espnfc.com/story/3188321...ers-joins-sheffield-united-on-loan-from-spurs

 

That's better than riding the pine and making a couple of league cup appearances like last season. I hope he does really well (except against Fulham) and gets more attention from Arena.

 

Emerson Hyndman, where arts thou? Was really hoping he'd go back to Rangers on loan, but when that didn't transpired it looks like he'll have to wait until Jan. to play football. He hasn't even made the bench for any Prem matches (he was on the bench for their cup game). Maybe he picked an injury (haven't seen anything), but he appears to be all but buried at his current club.

 

I believe that Hyndman was injured most of the preseason (even though there were pictures of him training with the squad in Spain). He's on the bench again today (another league cup match).

It's crazy how hard it is to get information sometimes. I check teams' sites and twitter feeds, players' twitter, instagram, and news searches to no avail most times. Some players just go completely dark and then reappear for unknown reasons. I thought we might have gotten rid of Marlon Fossey for a long time, then all of a sudden his player profile on the offal updates. I still haven't seen his name on any match reports though.

 

Over in Germany, Weston McKennie has gotten a few run-outs with Schalke 04. A couple of late subs and the start today against Bayern. He only lasted 57 minutes today, but a start against the league giants is a positive thing in my mind.

I'd like to see him get called in for some national team training - whether it be with the U20s or the senior squad.

 

If we're playing the milk carton game, where is Aron Johansson? I would have thought he and Bobby Wood would be battling it out for the top 2 striker spots about a year ago.

Hyndman could still get in the mix if you're willing to play Pulisic wide. Not sure you'd want to do that, but Bruce has a couple of times.

Oh yeah, whatever happened to DeAndre Yedlin? Seeing as how wingback has become a black hole of epic suck.

 

Yedlin was injured. He missed the start of the season for New Castle and the September qualifiers for the US due to the injury.

Hyndman has been playing for Bournemouth's U-21 side.

 

The good news is Yedlin is back playing and didn't get hurt by Brighton's Tomer Hemed stamp on his calf. Hemed lost his appeal and will sit out 3 matches (all the while proclaiming his innocence), you tell me (looks blatant);

http://www.espnfc.com/brighton-and-...omer-hemed-banned-for-stamp-on-deandre-yedlin

 

Weston McKennie extends contract at Schalke 04 until 2022. Sounds like there's a bit more first team action in store for the youngster. Hopefully some call ups for the national team follow suit.

http://sbisoccer.com/2017/09/weston-mckennie-extends-contract-with-schalke

 

http://www.espnfc.us/werder-bremen/...strated-by-lack-of-game-time-at-werder-bremen

**WATCH the video** It contains a portion of Jermaine Jones' recent comments about not enough guys going overseas and then Brian McBride expands. I wonder what Jordan Morris named the dog

The best part of the article was while Aron has been frozen out, he sounds like he's healthy for the first time in awhile. Bremen is in the relegation zone, so a coaching change is likely soon and perhaps Aron will get some pitch time w/a new regime.

**Elsewhere, as HD mentioned Chandler did suffer a knee injury and had to have surgery and is out for 'the foreseeable future'.

 

And...there's been a John Brooks sighting in Wolfsburg...

http://www.bundesliga.com/en/news/B...undesliga-comeback-against-schalke-462901.jsp

 

That is great news.